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My Rating: 1 star

I can easily summarize this story in a few sentences: A shepherd named Santiago sets out on a journey to find reassure in the Egyptian pyramids, which he saw in his dreams. Along the way he meets a gypsy, a man who thinks he is a king, an Englishman, and an alchemist. In the end, his journey was completely pointless because he ended up not even finding the treasure.
In between the beginning and the end is a bunch of nonsense about your “Personal Legend” and the “Soul of the World” or something. Honestly, nothing important happens. I have to fill out a conflict chart for school (character vs. character, character vs. society…etc) and I honestly don’t know what to put in these charts. Nothing climatic happened. I didn’t like Coelho’s writing style. This was one of the worst summer reading books I’ve ever read. I actually had to force myself to read this book so I would finish it, and I absolutely hate doing that.
On the back cover of this book, it says: Every few decades a book comes along that changes the lives of its readers forever.” Sorry, but the only book that changed my life was Harry Potter.